The Walt Disney Co. 4th Quarter Earnings Report Shows Record Revenue

[John park hopper]

For those who have Disney stock does your quarterly dividend after taxes cover all the annual Disney price increases when you visit?

 

[eliza61nyc]

For those who have Disney stock does your quarterly dividend after taxes cover the all the annual Disney price increases when you visit?

No I probably would not say a quarterly dividend, probably 3 quarters will. Also I think it's also a question of what increases are hitting each individual.
I'm a dvc member so I have not been hit with the parking charge. Also with my Annual pass and my dvc I tend to eat at the places that offer discounts which luckily are most of the places. We don't do many in park restaurants except a Epcot.

what else? oh the soda increase. unfortunately I live in a city that has a soda tax so I haven't purchased a soda in philly for a year now, so again my attitude with that is don't buy it if you don't want to pay the cost. We freeze water bottles (we go in hot hot seasons) and bring them to the parks.

my last trip in August ticket prices had not increased yet but I did not need one as I had an annual pass from last October that I used 3 times (nov 17. april and august 18) I'm not renewing it mainly because I'm not going back until 2020, not because of price but because I don't want to deal with the initial star wars frenzies.

And remember it's not only dividend prices it's also increase in share price. back in 1990 I think Disney shares were 10 bucks a share. they are now 116 bucks.

A little snippet from Bloomsberg

Shares of the Burbank, California-based firm have returned 484 percent since he became CEO in 2005, including reinvested dividends, outpacing the 192 percent gain in the S&P 500 Index.

 

[DisAl]

Bean counters, bean counters, what shall we do,
next thing you know we will have to pay for the loo.

 

[WDW Monorail]

No I probably would not say a quarterly dividend, probably 3 quarters will. Also I think it's also a question of what increases are hitting each individual.
I'm a dvc member so I have not been hit with the parking charge. Also with my Annual pass and my dvc I tend to eat at the places that offer discounts which luckily are most of the places. We don't do many in park restaurants except a Epcot.

what else? oh the soda increase. unfortunately I live in a city that has a soda tax so I haven't purchased a soda in philly for a year now, so again my attitude with that is don't buy it if you don't want to pay the cost. We freeze water bottles (we go in hot hot seasons) and bring them to the parks.

my last trip in August ticket prices had not increased yet but I did not need one as I had an annual pass from last October that I used 3 times (nov 17. april and august 18) I'm not renewing it mainly because I'm not going back until 2020, not because of price but because I don't want to deal with the initial star wars frenzies.

And remember it's not only dividend prices it's also increase in share price. back in 1990 I think Disney shares were 10 bucks a share. they are now 116 bucks.

A little snippet from Bloomsberg

Shares of the Burbank, California-based firm have returned 484 percent since he became CEO in 2005, including reinvested dividends, outpacing the 192 percent gain in the S&P 500 Index.

With regard to the Bloomberg snippet, I read an article this morning about how a investor chose some stocks to “purchase” when he was very young. These included Coca Cola, Disney and McDonalds.

Back in 2004 in high school, he were given $100,000 to invest in whatever stock we wanted to. Two of my picks were Coca Cola and Disney, similar to the what the article I mentioned described. People who actually did invested any amount at that time would be doing very well now depending on what other rates of return they could get on other investments over the course of 14 years.

 

[eliza61nyc]

With regard to the Bloomberg snippet, I read an article this morning about how a investor chose some stocks to “purchase” when he was very young. These included Coca Cola, Disney and McDonalds.

Back in 2004 in high school, he were given $100,000 to invest in whatever stock we wanted to. Two of my picks were Coca Cola and Disney, similar to the what the article I mentioned described. People who actually did invested any amount at that time would be doing very well now depending on what other rates of return they could get on other investments over the course of 14 years.

Dollar cost averaging is a great tool. I actually got my 1st disney stock from someone as a gift to my oldest son when he was first born almost 30 years ago. then it was easy to sign up for monthly purchases automatically. Coke was a great one also, I think it split a couple of times. I read that if you owned 100 bucks original coke stock it would be worth some thing ridiculous like 9 million today. jeez.

lol, I'm trying to get my youngest who just graduated from College to do this. of course he's not a very good long term thinker so he's more worried about getting an apartment. lol imagine if you purchased 1000 bucks of apple back in 85. lol after all the splits it would be worth something around 200K.

From what I heard lots of folks hated Steve Jobs also, he was supposedly not a very nice man to work for but you definitely are a happy camper if you built a retirement plan around him.

people can whine all they want about Iger but the parks are packed and he's made a bunch of money for the company.